Baby Born on Afghanistan Evacuation Flight Named After Aircraft Call Sign

Medical support personnel help an Afghan mother and family off a U.S. Air Force C-17, moments after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Aug. 21, 2021. U.S. Air Mobility Command via Reuters

A baby girl who was born on a U.S. evacuation plane out of Afghanistan on Aug. 21 has been named after the call sign of the aircraft, the head of U.S. European Command told reporters on Aug. 25.

“We’ve had further conversations with the mom and the dad of the baby,” Gen. Tod Wolters, who is also NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, told reporters at a briefing from the Pentagon. “They named the little girl Reach. And they did so because the call sign of the C-17 aircraft that flew them from Qatar to Ramstein was Reach.”